Window-sash



(No Model.)

H. MESKER & T. 0. ARBEGUST.

WINDOW SASH.

Patented Mar. 17, 1891,

ATEN Fries.

FRANK MESKER AND THOMAS O. ARBEGUST, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

WlNDOW-SASH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,354, dated March 1'7, 1891.

Application filed May 3, 1890. Serial No. 350,527. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FRANK MESKER and TH MAs O. ARBEGUST, of St. Louis, Missouri, have jointly made a new and useful Improvement in lVindow-Sashes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to what are known to the trade as show-sashes, and particularly to that class of show-sashes having metal panels and transom-bars, or either thereof; and it consists in the special mode of constructing the metal portions of the sash and uniting them with the stiles and rails of the sash, substantially as is hereinafter set forth and described, aided by the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of the upper lefthand corner of the improved sash Fig. 2, a vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig.1; Fig. 3, an elevation of the lower left-hand corner of the sash; Fig. 4, a horizontal section on the line 4 l of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 a vertical section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 4.

Only those portions of the sash are shown which are essential to an understanding of the construction.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

A represents one of the sashstiles; 13, the bottom rail; O, the top rail; D, the panel above the bottom rail; E, the glass pane above the panel; F, the transom-bar, and G the transom light or pane. All these parts are respectively shaped and are combined substantially as is exemplified in a concurrent application (Serial N 0. 19,195, filed April 23, 1890) of ours for an improvement in window-sashes, wherein a metal panel and transom-bar and other features of construction are shown, saving as hereinafter specified. In the construction referred to the panel at its lower edge d projects slightly in front of the front surfaceb of the bottom rail. In the present instance the panel does not so project in front of the bottom rail, but is united therewith, as shown substantially-that is, the panel, or at least the main portion thereof, is set in from the front surface of the bottom rail, and it meets the bottom rail preferably about half-way through to the back of the bottom rail. The bottom rail is beveled upward and backward, as shown at b, and the panel is provided with or shaped to form a flange cl, which rests upon the beveled edge I) and extends backward and upward to the upper corner Z1 of the bottom rail, and thence the panel-flange dis extended downward at d iagainst the back surface b of the bottom rail, and the panel is secured to the bottom rail by means of nails d driven through the flangeeXtension d into the bottom rail, as shown.

In the former construction the entire panel is not allowed to project in front of the rabbet H, which is formed in each of the stiles. In the present construction a portion d", Fig. 5, does project in front of the rabbets, and to provide for such portion the projecting edge a of the stile in'each stile is removed, as at a. While this mode of joining the panel and stiles is perhaps more expensive, it serves to unite the panel more securely with the stiles. The panel is also, as in the'foriner construction, provided at its side edges with nailingilanges cl" which are nailed to the stiles, as shown. The transom-bar is similarly united with the stiles, the bar having a portion or portions ff, which project in front of the rabbets, and the edge a of the stiles being removed, as ata to admit the portions f.

e claim 1. In a sash, the combination of the rabbeted stiles and the sheet-metal panel having the projecting portion (Z substantially as de scribed.

2. In a sash, the combination, with the rabbeted stiles, of the sheet-metal transom-bar having one or more projecting portions ff, substantially as described.

3. In a sash, the combination, with the rabbeted stiles having portions of the edge Ct reinovcd,of the panel having a projecting por tion d", and the transom-bar having one or more projecting portions, substantially as described.

lVitness our hands this 21st day of April, 

